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107 New Delhi, April 1 Scientists have developed a new technique to track the huge bubbles of gas, threaded with magnetic field lines, which are ejected from the sun disrupting space weather and causing geomagnetic storms, satellite failures, and power outages, the Department of Science and Technology said Thursday. The new technique will be used in Indias first solar mission Aditya-L1. As the ejections from the sun, technically called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), cause various disturbances...

DSHRs Blog Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Correlated Failures The invaluable statistics published by Backblaze show that, despite being built from technologies close to the physical limits (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording, 3D NAND Flash), modern digital storage media are extraordinarily reliable. However, I have long believed that the models that attempt to project the reliability of digital storage systems from the statistics of media reliability are wildly optimistic. They ignore foreseeable caus...

Bill Murray | March 7, 2021 @ 6:10 am Well, it’s an easy forecast for a change. We are settling into a fairly calm pattern by early March standards. Some really nice temperatures are in store for next week, more like what we would expect in late April. SATURDAY was a beautiful day across Central Alabama. Temperatures were cooler than the past couple of days, but gorgeous blue skies made the readings in the lower 60s feel nicer. Highs ranged from 60F at Anniston, to 61F at Birmingham, to ...

DOE announces $4M Lab Call for EMP/GMD assessments, testing, and mitigation The Department of Energys (DOE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) announced a $4-million Lab Call to address the risks of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) to the energy system. CESER, which leads DOE’s efforts to address both EMP and GMD, developed this Lab Call due to the potentially catastrophic i...

The best measurements yet of the magnetic fields in the upper layers of the sun have revealed a landscape of lumps and bumps that may help us predict solar flares

Coronal heating & solar wind, returns from solar missions shed light on Sun’s mysteries January 21, 2021 It’s one of the greatest mysteries in solar physics.  Dubbed the coronal heating problem, the issue arises from the fact that the solar corona, or Sun’s atmosphere, is millions of degrees hotter than the layers directly below it. This goes against modeling that suggests the corona should be far cooler than the layers below it. Numerous theories have been proposed to explain the proble...

Posted on December 21st, 2020 Priyantha Hettige  – with life and people – or are we alone in the universe? We know that the stars we see are large, hot and dangerous; and the many exo-planets,” we have found so far orbiting those stars, are rocky bodies, varying from barren and fiery hot to extremely cold. Space is just a few degrees above absolute zero (-273 o)  So, what are the requirements for life to exist on a planet – and will it be like us? Many instru...

Solar storms happen when particles from the Sun hit the Earths magnetic field These charged particles interact with the field and generate the northern lights It is triggered by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun that happened on Monday This expulsion of plasma reached the Earth yesterday and will affect the planet today and on to tomorrow with increasing intensity before calming down 

Explained: Why parts of the US may be able to see the Northern Lights The Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis, are usually witnessed far up in the polar regions or the high latitude regions of Europe. But, on Thursday, they could be visible in parts of Illinois and Pennsylvania in the US. December 10, 2020 2:12:46 pm The northern lights in Lapland, Finland. (The New York Times: Russ Juskalian, File) Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis, ...

Can pose a danger here on earth. a burning see the masses since time immemorial the sun has been a source of fascination. at the max planck institute for solar system research in gottingen scientists are studying coronal mass ejections or c m es in particular they want to know why these solar eruptions occur with varying frequency over an eleven year cycle in the air we think they result from a dynamo inside the sun but we dont know exactly how it works. the sun is one hundred fifty million kilo...